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12-letter words containing s, u, d, o, r, i

  • glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
  • hadrosaurine — Hadrosaurid.
  • homebuilders — Plural form of homebuilder.
  • house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • housebuilder — One who builds houses, particularly one who does so professionally.
  • housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
  • hudson riverHenry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
  • hydronautics — (nautical) The science of the design and construction of ships, their engines, and their instrumentation.
  • hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
  • hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • idiothermous — warm-blooded
  • idolatrously — In an idolatrous manner.
  • in our midst — among us
  • indecorously — not decorous; violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety; unseemly.
  • iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
  • judicatories — Plural form of judicatory.
  • juris doctor — lawyer's degree
  • jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.
  • kindred soul — like-minded person
  • ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
  • long residue — Long residue is the heaviest fraction from the crude oil distillation process.
  • malnourished — poorly or improperly nourished; suffering from malnutrition: thin, malnourished victims of the famine.
  • misconstrued — Simple past tense and past participle of misconstrue.
  • misdemeanour — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
  • multistoried — Multi-storey.
  • neurodiverse — Exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration.
  • nitrous acid — an acid, HNO 2 , known only in solution.
  • non-industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
  • non-residual — pertaining to or constituting a residue or remainder; remaining; leftover.
  • oil industry — petroleum-processing business
  • old guardism — political conservatism.
  • old prussian — a Baltic language extinct since the 17th century. Abbreviation: OPruss.
  • on your side — If something is on your side or if you have it on your side, it helps you when you are trying to achieve something.
  • orchidaceous — belonging to the plant family Orchidaceae.
  • outside work — work done off the premises of a business
  • outsider art — art produced by untutored artists working by themselves and for themselves
  • outsiderness — The state or condition of being an outsider.
  • outspreading — Present participle of outspread.
  • overdiscount — to discount excessively
  • perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • prediscourse — communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
  • prison guard — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • prodigiously — extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.: a prodigious research grant.
  • proditorious — traitorous
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
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